Cory Petkovsek
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I agree with David. If it seems more complex than it should be then it is and you need to rethink it. Each animation is distinct. Make each one it’s own comp on it’s own layer. They only last a few seconds. In the master comp you have the next one appear off to the right, it’s parented to the current one. When the current one slides off to the left, the new scene comes in with it. A separate comp is animating the line drawing to tie them together. Pretty easy to make it look complex. Just break it down.
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If I were doing video for their parents, I would not get any permission. I would also use this for my demo reel if I saw fit. In fact I do this; one of my clients is a ballet dance company and twice a year they want us to produce DVDs for their performances. The students are 5 through college age.
However if I were to take footage of one of those girls and use it in a broadcast commercial, a widely spread commercial web video, or a film, then I would be exposing myself to risk if I didn’t have the proper paperwork and someone had it in mind to dig for something.
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– Apply fast blur to the comp behind trapcode?
– Apply fast blur as an adjustment layer below trapcode layer?
– Setup cameras and turn the layers into 3D; Set the camera focus plane to where trapcode is and turn on DOF?
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In the US, especially in California there are strict child labor laws. You need to look at your local laws or consult an attorney, not a friend or another business owner.
In California if I want to bring a child on set I have to have a studio teacher involved plus other red tape, unless it is on a non-school day and no more than once per year per child, and the shoot is limited to 4 hours. It also depends on what you are doing with it. If it’s just home video, no one will care. If you’re making something for mass distribution, it gets very strict here.
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It’s a poor quality chroma key heavily stylized to look good. Start keying out the yellow with “color key” or keylight. But don’t key out all the creases, just the main color. Leave some residue. Then you’ll have to play with how to emphasize that residue into something good looking. I’d start with colorama, glow, and change color. You’ll need to mask out the rest so you leave the effects limited to the clothes.
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Figure out what you want to do, then use the tool that people who are doing that use. Don’t learn maya if you want to do motion graphics for corporate work. Learn maya if you want to do intense character animation for film. Want to do video games? Real time graphics? Film? Motion Graphics? Visual Effects? Character design? Modeling? Rigging? Animation? Scenic design?
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It’s fine. Especially if you don’t know why you would want more. I’m doing 3D and AE work on a system that is half the speed and half the ram.
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Write down your stop errors and do google searches on them. As I said they are signs of either hardware faults or kernel-space software faults (drivers, messed up os files, kernel-space apps like a/v). They will give you specific information to troubleshoot with. See if you always get the same one, or if they are different. Hopefully you get the same one. If they’re always different, you’ve got big problems.
If you can’t fix it with driver upgrades, and nothing conclusive comes up from specific, component by component stress testing (test one thing at a time for a while to see if it crashes), then you have to rule out software. Uninstall your a/v (temporarily, while testing). Learn how to do driver verification and system file verification within windows.
If you find nothing there, then the way to rule out corrupt os files or kernel space appps is to format your drive and install windows. Just install windows and AE or the adobe suite, and anything you need to render these specific jobs. Work with that, with minimal software and see if you can get it to crash. If so, then it’s either hardware, or one of the apps you just installed. If you only installed AE, then it’s for sure hardware. If you installed some drivers for your tablet and drivers for your console and codecs, it could be one of those. Keep the test case as minimal as possible.
If it’s for sure hardware, yet your stress testing didn’t identify which subsystem is the problem, then you need to remove hardware and see if it helps. Unplug any unnecessary hardware (tablets, printers, usb anything). Do you have an older video card available? Swap it out and test with AE (the only thing that crashes the os). Or buy a cheap one for $30 to test with. Take out half the ram and test. Put it back and take out the other half and test (keep the same slots).
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An alternative to 3ds max? Maya, Cinema 4D, Blender 3D. The last one is free. I’ve recently migrated to blender from cinema4d. The latest version is doing pretty well. You just need a good renderer with Blender, same as 3ds. However note that no 3D software is trivial to use. Prepare to spend a lot of time learning.
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